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Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro

1561 · Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent

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The painter presented Cornaro, a connoisseur of antiques, in a dignified manner, his left hand resting on a sculpted female head. The dark palette and partial lighting of the face and hands are typical of Venetian portraiture at that time.

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Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Cornaro